Street Smart

The streets are not kind With their pockets of criminals And their reckless drivers Out to cause havoc And rob people of their dignity The streets of life are crowded Simmering with all kinds of attitudes Brimming with a diversity of the human traits With their varying IQs And their competing needs Sometimes colluding together To manipulate the system With their corrupt tendencies And their insatiable appetite Their obsessive desires to create wealth And reconstruct their social status Be street smart Picking up opportunities like oranges Not relying on your education alone Reading the signs on the streets of life with ease Always staying ahead of your peers Soak in knowledge and dress yourself with wisdom Address your basic needs and redress your wicked desires Always trust in God and believe in yourself Dig up your talents, and wash them clean Polish and display them on the street corners Opportunities are always present Visible only to the wise Waiting to be plucked from their tree With the swiftness of a snake And the audacity of a fox Do not be restrained Chained by the lure of a permanent job With its dumb restrictions And obsessiveness with month-end salary Be street smart And unchain your abilities Unearthing your wisdom To work the streets of life